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Zoey Tur

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The Resume

    (June 8, 1960- )
    Born in Los Angeles County, California
    Birth name was Robert Albert 'Bob' Tur
    Broadcast reporter and helicopter pilot
    With wife Marika Gerrard formed the Los Angeles News Service (1979)
    First to use an AStar helicopter to cover live breaking news in a major city (1985)
    Covered the Loma Prieta earthquake (1989), the Rodney King riots (1992) and the O.J. Simpson slow-speed Bronco chase (1994)
    Revealed having gender identity disorder (2013)
    Underwent hormone replacement therapy and gender reassignment surgery
    Applied in court to change legal gender from male to female (August, 2014)
    Parent of MSNBC and Weather Channel correspondent Katy Tur

Why she might be annoying:

    He dropped out of community college.
    Her motto: ‘It’s not enough to beat the competition. You’ve got to make them suffer.’
    She has been accused of reckless and aggressive flying, with Sam Rubin of KTLA-TV calling Tur ‘the most dangerous pilot in the air and on the air.’
    During an appearance on Dr. Drew, she said that a transgender woman using the women’s locker at a Michigan Planet Fitness was a dangerous predator (March, 2015).
    During another ‘Dr. Drew’ appearance discussing Caitlyn Jenner receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, she grabbed Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro by the neck and threatened to send him home in an ambulance after Shapiro addressed her as ‘sir.’ (July, 2015)

Why she might not be annoying:

    He dated Carrie Fisher: ‘It was like every American boy’s dream come true: I’m dating Princess Leia.’
    Together, Tur and Gerrard received three local Emmy Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards for broadcasting excellence, and the National Press Photographers Association Humanitarian Award
    He rescued 54 people from the Pacific after the Portofino Inn at Redondo Beach collapsed during a storm (1988).
    He was credited by Israeli medics with saving the life of an Israeli Defense Forces soldier in Lebanon (August, 2006).

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 21 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 93.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 35 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 24 Votes: 66.67% Annoying